NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950A

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +14%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 900A

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Saturn

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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